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The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
Begin with love and you will produce love. Jetsunma goes into why reach for something “not of this world” like Enlightenement to solve your quest for happiness. Do it for yourself and for all beings.
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The following is an excerpt from “Buddhahood Without Meditation: A Visionary Account Known as Refining One’s Perception” by Dudjom Lingpa:
With unswerving faith I pay homage to the sovereign lord, the primordial lord protector, the most sublime citadel of the magical display of pristine awareness.
These days, when the five kinds of degeneration are on the rise, sentient beings are without exception rough and wild, under the sway of very powerful negative karma. Clinging to the mere passing dream of this human life, they make long-range plans as though for an eternal stay and turn their backs on the pursuit of something meaningful for future lifetimes. For this reason, it seems to me that those who earnestly seek liberation and omniscience are no more numerous than stars in the daytime. Even though people may be aware of their mortality and enthusiastically practice the Buddhadharma, they devote their human existence simply to physical and verbal acts of virtue and thus pursue higher rebirths as gods or humans.
Some, without the slightest understanding of the view of emptiness, come to a decision that their own minds are empty. They are directly introduced to what is nothing more than a state of discursive thought or passive awareness and remain in this state with nothing whatever to do. This propels them towards rebirth among the gods of the desire and form realms, but does not bring them even a hair’s breadth closer to the path to omniscience.
Therefore, if a few spiritual individuals have throughout immeasurable aeons gathered the accumulations on a vast scale, tied these to noble aspirations and established some karmic connection to spiritual teachings concerning ultimate reality, I will teach them according to their good fortune and capacity to comprehend. Those who lack karmic connection to me or the good fortune to make use of the Great Perfection teachings, and instead exaggerate or deprecate these teachings, have banished their own minds to some lonely wilderness. You spiritual individuals who are not like this and whose good fortune is equal to my own, consider my advice. Through examination and analysis, through familiarization and acquaintance, recognize samsara and nirvana as supreme emptiness, and so realize the fundamental nature.
Three categories are found in the approach of the Great Perfection that is the inherent nature: the category of mind (sem-dhe), the category of the vast expanse of being (long-dhe) and the category of direct transmission instructions (man-ngag-dhe). This text pertains to what is termed the secret category of direct transmission instructions. There are three sections herein, concerning view (ta-wa), meditation (gom-pa) and conduct (kyod-pa).
In a dream I remember that I forgot what I remembered
I knew that I knew it was a dream.
I know I can stand still, in full presence and awaken
How odd that our uncontrived Primordial Nature dances with SO MANY mirrors, all sizes and shapes.
Splendid and devastating!
OM MANI PEDME HUNG
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The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
This 5 part workshop was given over a weekend and fcuses on the many ways we can invoke recognition of our nature using Mindfulness.
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“When one has some little bit of quality or knowledge, one should not think pridefully ‘Oh, I am so great’. Then one’s quality and knowledge will degenerate, and in the future it will be even more difficult to give rise to these kinds of qualities and knowledge”
The previous #quote is from Kyabje HHPenor Rinpoche With thanks to Kenchen Tsewang Gyatso and PALYUL CLEAR LIGHT
THE STAINLESS ESSENCE TANTRA says: Merit accumulated from prayer. Offering, and making praises before the image of your Lama is infinate and countless. Merely seeing him cleanses bad karma; merely hearing his words generates positive qualities; merely rembering him merges your mind with his. That which is very hard to find in ten million eons is attained in an instant. All these qualities come from the Lama!
The Stainless Essence Tantra thanks to Palyul Clear Light.
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
Hello to all from this secret place, where we are buried in snow. So much wind I can’t tell how deep it is. Wow. It is peaceful and lovely.
It seems, fairly, the US Attorneys announced they are seeking appeal in the case where I am the victim: US vs William Cassidy. Maybe I will be able to go home sooner than later. The case, and my situation, are still up for grabs.
But patience is the only remedy here. And I’m staying strong. I am not at all afraid so long as the stalker is being held and watched. The other haters I face all day don’t frighten me. They don’t actually threaten. So it is just emotional imbalance. And the things people do behind the safety of a screen.
Just need protection for my family, my pack, and myself, as well as my life’s work. Most haters don’t have a violent felony past, just feelings of inferiority and failure in life that they can’t own up to. So they want to “compete” in a world where for some types credentials are superfluous (not me!)
I have compassion for those who feel like they have nothing. Not important to anyone. For those who assault and threaten? Not so much.
There are times coming where we will all need to re-evaluate everything. How much less we can get by with, lotsa government, stricter control, toxic food, Earth etc. So it is time to grow up. Stop whining, throwing rocks at each other, and justifying bad conduct, because something scared you.
I’m in a safe house, but making the best use of my time here, not ruminating, crying, whining. My door wasn’t knocked down, it was my life.
All I care about is getting back to work and family in the short time I have left, so that I can be of benefit to others. I’ve never had any other aspiration, (well, music) and wish to contribute to the well being and safety of other threatened women at risk.
We women are half the world. We are not cattle. We matter. We should not have to run!
We are everywhere. Strong – and not going away any time soon.
Love and blessings to all women – there are so many! Stay strong. Stay safe, I’m with you!
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The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo in Sedona, Arizona:
While the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas offer the feast of Dharma and beg us to eat, we hold our egos and samsara on the thornes of our hearts instead. We are begged to adhere to the teachings of the Buddha and take real refuge, binding our hearts to the Three Jewels.
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The following is an excerpt from Patrul Rinpoche’s “The Words of My Perfect Teacher”
Now surely, if anyone takes harmful spirits as something to be killed or beaten, it must be because his mind is under the power of attachment and hatred and knows nothing of great impartial compassion. When you think about it carefully, those malignant spirits are far more in need of compassion than any benefactors. They have become harmful spirits because of their evil karma. Reborn as pretas, with horrible bodies, their pain and fear is unimaginable. They experience nothing but endless hunger, thirst, and exhaustion. They perceive everything as threatening. And their minds are full of hate and aggression, many go to hell as soon as they die. Who could deserve more pity? The patrons may be sick and suffering, but that will help them exhaust their evil karma, not to create more. Those evil spirits, on the other hand, are harming others with their evil intentions, and will be hurled by those harmful actions to the depths of the lower realms.
If the Conqueror, skilled in means and full of compassion, taught the art of exorcising or intimidating these harmful spirits with violent methods, it was out of compassion for them, like a mother spanking a child who will not obey her. He also permitted the ritual of liberation to be practiced by those who have the power to interrupt the flow of evil deeds of beings who only do harm, and to transfer their consciousness to a pure realm. But as for pandering to benefactors, monks and others that we consider to be on our own side, and rejecting demons and wrongdoers as hateful enemies — protecting the one and attacking the other out of attachment and hatred — where are such attitudes mentioned in teachings of the Conqueror? As long as we are driven by such feelings of attachment and hatred, it would be futile to try to expel or attack any harmful spirits. Their bodies are only mental and they will not obey us. They will only do us harm in return. Indeed, even if our feelings for such gods and spirits are very positive — not to speak of desire and hate — we will never subdue them as long as we believe that they really exist.
When Jetsun Mila was living in Garuda Fortress Cave in the Chong valley, the king of obstacle-makers, Vinayaka, produced a supernatural illusion. In his cave, Jetsun Mila found five astaras with eyes as big as saucers. He prayed to his teacher and to his yidam, but the demons did not go away. He meditated on the visualization of his deity and recited wrathful mantras, but still they would not go.
Finally, he thought, “Marpa of Lhodrak showed me that everything in the universe is mind, and that the nature of mind is empty and radiant. To believe in these demons and obstacle-makers as something external and to want them to go away has no meaning.”
Feeling powerful confidence in the view that knows spirits and demons to be simply one’s own perceptions, he strode back into his cave. Terrified and rollingtheir eyes, the astaras disappeared.
This is also what the Ogress of the Rock meant, when she sang to him:
This demon of your own tendencies arises from your mind;
If you don’t recognize the nature of your mind,
I’m not going to leave just because you tell me to go.
If you don’t realize that your mind is void,
There are many more demons besides myself!
But if you recognize the nature of your own mind,
Adverse circumstances will serve only to sustain you
And even I, Ogress of the Rock, will be at your bidding.
The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:
It always boggles my mind when some people spend their time putting others down, even if they themselves have accomplished so little. Getting a job, contributing, etc. Could it be these folks are wounded people who basically live off others like vampires?
Before one calls themselved Buddha they should do their own practice and pay their own bills, root out their own poisons. To claim perfection while being cruel and harassing others shows who you really are. And it is not an enlightened being. You don’t get there by wearing pants!
Silly Rabbits! Tricks are for kids.
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The following is a full length video teaching offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo at Kunzang Palyul Choling:
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